RG AUDIO 051218   Psalm 27:1-14 Waiting is not easy. Think about some of the ways our culture teaches us waiting is bad. If we go to a fast-food restaurant and wait more than 5 minutes, many of us are ready to ask for a manager to complain. We can make instant purchases on the […]

RG AUDIO 051118   Acts 1:1-14 The disciples and followers of Jesus just didn’t understand what the kingdom of God was. Despite spending time with Jesus—some of them were his close companions—they still miscomprehended what Jesus was about and how his kingdom functioned. Jesus had been resurrected and what they wanted to know was when […]

RG AUDIO 051018   John 19:16-27 My youngest loves to play with her toy jack-in-the-box. Crank the handle and hear the music. Jack-in-the-box is either a toy you enjoy or hate. Not everyone loves something popping out at you—even if you know it is coming eventually. The anticipation is all too often worse than the […]

RG AUDIO 050918   John 2:1-12 My children love to visit their grandparents. The last several years we have lived the closest we have ever been to one set of grandparents: a mere 4 hours. And yet, for the two elementary-aged boys, it might as well be 40 hours. Not 30 minutes into a trip […]

RG AUDIO 050818   Luke 2:22-35 Simeon had waited a very long time to see God move in the world and take away the “sorrow of Israel.” Luke 2 notes that he was filled with the Spirit. Simeon was a faithful follower of God. Yet, Simeon waited, and waited, and waited for this to take […]

RG AUDIO 050718   Luke 2:8-21 As a child I loved the game called “Memory.” I would set all the square cards down in rows. Then I would flip them over one-by-one, attempting to find matching pairs of cards by remembering where I saw it last. As I’ve grown older, I’ve come to realize how […]

RG AUDIO 050618   Psalm 130:1-8 One of my professors at Seminary said, “God has one plan for the redemption of the world: The Body Plan. And there is no ‘Plan B.’” We were talking about the role of God’s people in the world. The professor’s point was that to redeem the world, God does […]

RG AUDIO 050518   Psalm 103:1-22 Psalm 103 is jam-packed with descriptions of God’s grace. Look at just the verbs—the action words—from verses 3 through 6. God is the One who forgives, heals, redeems, crowns, satisfies, renews, and works righteousness and justice. In the midst of all this action, David the psalmist points out God’s […]

RG AUDIO 050418   1 John 1:1-10 When I was a teenager, I had a set of drums in my room. Several times over the years I got up in the middle of the night for a drink of water and promptly tripped over one of those drum or cymbal stands. All I had to […]

RG AUDIO 050318   Colossians 3:1-14 Let’s face it: forgiveness is downright hard sometimes. It’s hard to genuinely forgive someone and count their transgressions against them no more. Colossians 3 calls us to forgive each other just as Christ forgave us. We have a biblical mandate to forgive, but that doesn’t make it easy. Perhaps […]